"We always talk about car seat safety, immunizations and so on. Water safety is just as important." said Kim Utley an ISR Instructor. According to the World Health Organization, drowning is the number one cause of unintentional death in the entire world, with over 372,000 drowning deaths reported every single year.
Back in February U.S. News and World Report released its first-ever "Best States" report. On this list Louisiana ranked dead last. According to the magazine, the study takes into account a state's health care and education, "its economy, the opportunity it offers people, its roads, bridges, internet and other infrastructure, its public safety and the integrity and health of state g
After an exhaustive search for a teenage boy who fell from a jon boat on Black Bayou, a body recovered from the water has been identified as the missing boy.
The Shreveport Fire Department pulled the body of a Keithville man out of Twelve Mile Bayou after an apparent drowning Tuesday afternoon, and a strange video on the victim's Facebook may show the moments before his death.
More than $6,000 was raised over the weekend at a fundraiser for Shelby Patrick, the 9-year-old girl who nearly drowned at a country club pool last month.